Samsung SyncMaster 500S

[Grim Warlock]

Somebody was giving away their old CRT monitor, and I got it. It's a Samsung SyncMaster 500S which was manufactured in April of 1997.



I feel like I have time traveled by using this.

[PrimalLove]

Oh nice! CRT are the gaming standard! Fast refresh rate and no ghosting! Hard to get that kind of responsiveness out of most monitors on the market today without shelling out quite a penny. Good find.

[Grim Warlock]

Too bad they aren't manufactured anymore, I wish they were because of the things you list and its ability for higher colour depth. I've seen large 1920x1080 CRT monitors before, hopefully I can buy one. Flat screened CRT 1920x1080 would be heaven for me.

Only problem with this one I got is that it has a bit of blurring (degauss didn't help) and motion blur. But it's a 17 year old monitor.

I use to have a CRT monitor until 2008 and stupidly threw it out and got a 1680x1050 LCD monitor, it is good but not as good as the CRT one I had before. I think it was about 1280x860 and I had it since like 2004.

I get a huge nostalgia rush by using this, it reminds me of when I was younger. I use to have computers using CRTs all the time well up until about 2008. Finally I am reunited with a CRT!

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I still own a Sony Trinitron + a KDS USA CRT's. I'll never throw them away!

[Grim Warlock]

Good on ya, I regret throwing my old CRT monitor out.

[Cobalt]

I use to repair CRT monitors all the time. Probably one of the few left that still can.

If you have blur, there is an adjustment knob on the HV transformer inside on the chassis
that may help.

http://i.fixya.net/uploads/images/jdvillanueva_86.jpg

High end monitors have what is called "dynamic focus" which means there would be (2) focus controls, one for vertical and another for horizontal.

[Grim Warlock]

Thanks , kind of afraid to go in there and look due to the risk of being electrocuted.

[Cobalt]

Some of the better designs have holes in the back you can stick a screwdriver through. Sort of like on this one:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RnrZJF9Wjn...IMGH_04275.JPG

Thanks , kind of afraid to go in there and look due to the risk of being electrocuted.

[Grim Warlock]

Nice, mine doesn't seem to have any.

[Grim Warlock]

This would be an amazing monitor to have:



A Sony GDM-FW900.

[Cobalt]

Some people still run CRT monitors...not a lot, but CRT technology has been a proven design ever since the TV came out. There are more repair parts available for them than even the spare parts for current modern day plasma or LCD / LED type monitors. Basically when they break, they are not repairable.

Once the CRT goes due to age, thats pretty much the end of the road for the monitor. At one point Federal law mandated the inside of the glass have a lead coating to prevent harmful x-ray radiation. I know some old time TV repair guys who use to service TV sets back in the 1950's before they started designing lead into the glass, and he said in order for it to be harmful, you need to put your nose right on the glass for at least an hour. So
thats when they started putting lead into the CRT's. Turns out, when they reach end of life, the lead means they cant be disposed of like regular trash, so you have to pay extra to have them disposed of properly otherwise the lead may get into the drinking water.

[Polarite]

Nice CRT ;-)

I still use a 19" CRT from Dell for my quake1 setup

[talisa]

neato, used to have one of those monitors myself before i switched over to widescreen monitors <3

one of the things i remember mostly about it was that it weighed a friggin ton

[Cobalt]

John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor in 1995 | Games | Geek.com

[Grim Warlock]

I saw that before, a monitor like that is horribly rare especially in 1995.